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...present generation has not gazed at a more gallant act than Cervera at Santiago. Compare it with Scapa Flow...
Last week the Pere Marquette Railroad announced successful experiments with an automatic train control similar to the device announced by the Chicago & Northwestern a month ago ( TIME, Oct. 5). Electro-magnetic waves flow into the rails, are picked up by coils under the locomotive's pilot or cowcatcher," condensed, transmitted to signal devices in the engineer's cab. If the engineer is incapacitated or heedless, the current proceeds to operate controls, braking, throttling, halting the train. The incoming signals are despatched automatically by the block towers along the line and keep engineers informed of the condition of each...
...Straightway a steady stream of Cabinet members began to flow into the White House to pay official calls. Next day the first Cabinet meeting in eleven weeks was held (see CABINET...
...this denouncing, the former inducing her hearers to accept her plan for erecting a monument at Rochester, N. Y., to the Fox sisters* as "the founders of spiritualism." When it was Sir Arthur's turn to speak-malicious spirits had interruped him at the opening meeting - an over-flow crowd of some 1,500 excitable French people milled about the doors of the auditorium, pushing and shoving and grunting to get in and hear. Lady Doyle took the platform, expostulated, when over the stage came a bursting-party of rowdies, who jostled her rudely and tore down the draperies...
...heavyweight championship. "And when he meets Berlenbach . . ." said McTigue's adherents later that evening, fortifying themselves against the dampness and their own depression in the various bars and blind tigers of middle Manhattan, "when he meets this ham Berlenbach. . ." It was fashionable to finish the sentence with a flow of Elizabethan verbiage, accompanied by gestures illustrating the physical distress which would afflict The Astoria Assassin when subjected to violence on the part of Slattery...